The phrase "abusive sales" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe sales practices that are unethical, manipulative, or exploitative towards customers.
Example: "The company faced backlash for its abusive sales tactics that pressured customers into buying unnecessary products."
Alternatives: "exploitative sales" or "deceptive sales practices".
The regulators are investigating not only abusive sales practices, but trading abuses in which big investors received special treatment not available to others.
"You should be as appalled as we are when you read about any instances of these abusive sales practices," he said.
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey filed a lawsuit against ITT in April for allegedly engaging in abusive sales tactics and misleading students about the quality of its programs.
Then there are the hurdles confronting other watchdogs, especially state insurance regulators, which lack the resources and perhaps even the power to police abusive sales practices on military bases.
MemberWorks Inc., a national telemarketing company based in Stamford, Conn., that provides memberships in discount programs for credit card holders, has settled allegations of abusive sales practices brought by the New York State attorney general, Eliot L. Spitzer.
Approval of the bill, on a vote of 396 to 2, came less than a month after it was introduced by Representative Max Burns, a Republican of Georgia, who said his initiative was largely prompted by a series that began in July in The New York Times documenting abusive sales practices and unsuitable financial products on several military bases, including Fort Benning in Georgia.
As a result of abusive CDSL sales practices and empirical confirmation that distribution fees are deadweight costs, the SEC has faced increasing pressure to reform Rule 12(b -1.
In fact, the practice got so bad in the state of Florida that legislation was introduced to protect seniors from these abusive annuity sales practices.
"The F.T.C.'s justifications of preventing abusive and coercive sales practices and protecting privacy are substantial governmental interests".
In Mississippi, George R. Dale, the state insurance commissioner, said, "Abusive Medicare insurance sales practices are spreading rapidly throughout the state".
Here is what Barbara Roper, director of Investor Protection for the Consumer Federation of America, had to say about Senator Collin's retreat on the fiduciary issue: "The Amendment paints a target on the backs of senior Americans who are most likely to be targeted with abusive variable annuity sales practices". Will a universal fiduciary standard make its way into the new financial reform?
